Declan Scullion

TL;DR: It is reported that high-quality single-crystalline mono- and few-layer BN nanosheets are one of the strongest electrically insulating materials and more intriguingly, few- Layer BN shows mechanical behaviours quite different from those of few- layer graphene under indentation.

TL;DR: In this article, high-quality one-atom-thin hexagonal boron nitride (BN) has a thermal conductivity (κ) of 751 W/mK at room temperature, the second largest κ per unit weight among all semiconductors and insulators.

TL;DR: Gold-assisted mechanical exfoliation of monolayer molybdenum disulfide, up to a centimeter scale, is demonstrated and electrochemical characterization reveals intriguing interactions between monolayers MoS2 and Au.

TL;DR: Two dimensional transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD) based semiconductors have generated intense recent interest due to their novel optical and electronic properties and potential for applica... as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: The intrinsic Raman signature of monolayer and few-layer BN is revealed and it is found that atomically thin BN without interaction with a substrate has a G band frequency similar to that of bulk hexagonal BN (hBN), but strain induced by the substrate can cause a pronounced Raman shift.